http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/story.html?id=2fc4f25e-6448-4e24-860f-8e0425a8167d&k=65774
<<Vincent von Tscharner, a kinesiology professor at the University of
Calgary, experimented with several water dowsers in 2000. He studied
the effect of underground water channels on the electronic impulses of
human muscle fibers, trying to understand how water dowsers might sense
the liquid.
As part of that study, von Tscharner tested his most
reliable dowser by placing him in a trailer and asking him if the
trailer was over top of a water channel or not. The dowser was correct
24 times out of 24.
Von Tscharner's research was funded by the
Swiss National Science Foundation, and preliminary results were
published in their journal, but he hasn't found any North American
journal to publish the full results.>>
BTW At U of Calgary Vincent von Tscharner also found similar muscle activity in
non-dowsers.
There was short segment on the discovery channel about his research around 2002.
A bit more about the trailer experiments. The trailer was moved around a large
gravel parking lot with known channels of water running underneath.
Periodically the trailer would stop and the dowser walked up and down the
length of trailer "looking" for water. This dowser's instrument was just a long
metal rod which he held in the middle with one hand. If the rodbecame
unbalanced and dipped while he walked that indicated water.
Sometimes the trailer stopped over water, sometimes it didn't. Since the dowser
was inside the trailer with the windows covered he had no visible clues from
the terrain. The dowser correctly detected the presence or absence of water at
every stop.
Harry
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